Meet Vernon - the First Death Row Blogger

Blogging has arrived at death row. Meet Vernon is the first weblog written by a death row inmate.

Here's how it works, according to the sites creator, Virginia Simmons:

Vernon Lee Evans, is the next person to be executed on Maryland’s death row. You can write Vernon a question using the link at the top of the screen or by writing an email directly to MeetVernon@GMail.com . I will print out the emails and mail them to Vernon who is currently in a maximum security cell in Baltimore, Maryland. Vernon will mail me back his responses and I’ll post them here.

What a great idea! It benefits all of us to get to know a person who is going to be killed in our name. This site is for a Texas Deathrow inmate named Bobby Fratta.
You can write Bobby at:
Robert Fratta 999189
Polunsky Unit
3872 FM 350 S.
Livingston, TX 77351
I hope some of you will. Bobby's brother in law is Randall Adams, once on Texas Death Row himself.

I too have something set up to help Bobby Fratta (who some of you might have seen on A&E's American Justice last night). You can go to www.fight4bobby.blogspot.com. I will get any and all comments and questions to him.

The pride is that a death row inmate (or as is obviously more likely the case, his lawyer, since death row inmates don't have direct access to the internet) thinks TalkLeft is a site that protects and fights for the rights of the accused, including those on death row.

We live in the free West where we are always fighting for the right to free speech. Isn't that right to all in the west, whether we agree with them or not.
To say inmates don't have the right to free speech is a very dangerous prospect, you are saying they are not free to say what they feel or think, hey lets stop all appeals and any thought of wrongful conviction because it will, and never has happened.